As art director of a very small team I was responsible for a big chunk of the artwork. It was a challenge, but a good one! Here's some of the sketches and painting done during the different stages of development. The story changed a lot from first draft to finished film, so some the scenes depicted here may not have much in common with the actual movie.
Character Turnaround Manfred
Character Turnaround Sg. Beak
Character turnaround Seagull Soldiers
Exploration sketches of Manfred
More Manfred
At the very early stages of development we had Manfred attend a training camp. He would eventually become a true seagull soldier, like all the other seagulls.
Here's all the seagulls preparing to fly out of a hanger, onwards to battle!
In a later draft he was a little dumpsterdiving seagull, dreaming of one day becoming a soldier.
More concept art for the dumpsterdiving Manfred.
The colorboard of the film.
Background of the film
And another background of the film
And another one!
